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macdonjh:
I opened MC24, found the latest library back-up in my MC21 folders, and RESTORED.  Everything went well, but none of my Smartlists "came over", and the art work for my television series didn't follow, either.  Is there something I need to check?

Awesome Donkey:
Thumbnails don't get carried over in library backups. You'd have to either rebuild thumbnails or with MC closed move the Thumbnails folder in the J River Application Support folder (~/Library/Application Support/J River/) > Media Center 21 directory into the Media Center 24 directory.

blgentry:
I'm surprised your smart lists did not transfer.  I'm not sure how to troubleshoot that.  I would expect them to be right where they were in MC21.  Did you have any regular playlists that got transferred?  I'm wondering if your restore really worked.  I hope so.

Your TV art you are asking about is probably series and season cover art?  If so, that's stored in your main cover art folder, in subdirectories called "series" and "season".  By default those cover art directories are in the MC directory FOR THE CURRENT VERSION.  So, your cover art is probably back in your MC21 directory and needs to be copied over.

Or better yet, you should move your cover art directory to somewhere that's not underneath an MC versioned directory (something like Documents/Cover Art) and then tell MC to find your cover art there via Tools > Options > File Location > Cover art > folder .

Good luck.

Brian.

macdonjh:
Brian,

One of the things I like best about MC is the SmartLists, so much so that I don't have any playlists.  If I wanted playlists, I'd still have CDs.  :)

I'll try your suggestion for my TV cover art.  Yes, the missing pictures are those that appear in the SHOWS view for each series.  I don't remember for certain, but I think the pictures for each individual episode are still associated with the video file.

blgentry:
You might try your restore again, and verify before and after the location of one or more smart lists.  I just checked my Library and found a few smartlists that I created maybe 3 or 4 years ago back in MC21 or so.  They have transferred each time I did a major version upgrade.  So I'm pretty sure that smartlists follow the library when doing a backup and restore.

This makes me think that your restore didn't actually work, thus why I'm suggesting that you try again.  You could even make a test library to try this out; that way your current MC24 library doesn't get touched while you verify/play with this.

Good luck.

Brian.

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